Say I have a site, called Boston.com Say 100 links link to http://boston.com, and another 100 links link to http://www.boston.com There's no difference right? Thanks!
setup a 301 redirect to point to either www or not www. that will pass the juice to your choice add this to your .htaccess file Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on rewritecond %{http_host} ^boston.com [nc] rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.boston.com/$1 [r=301,nc]
Focus on only one url. If you start your optimization to boston.com with www. Then use it up to the end.
Ahhh.... so far, ive been linking with the WWW... however some links link to http://boston a 301 direct will take care of this??? im not even sure what that is
they are separate pages,even the index.php/html is a separate page. what happens,your keywords and pagerank will go towards the pages of the link and not count towards the page you want. use one url that you prefer and use the 301 that the first reply posted. the urls without the www will count towards the url with.
www.domain.com and domain.com are different domains in googles eyes. as per the answers on the thread redirect domain.com to www.domain.com if google see to different domain names with same content then you will lose out on the younger domain name use .htaccess to redirect most hosts have a setting to use from the control
If you're not using 301redirect then both sites - non-www and www will get indexed and if they have same content then one of them will be considered as having duplicate content. Redirect one of them to other one.
Just ftped a .htaccess file to my hosting site account on 123-reg tried my domain without the www's (sci-t.co.uk) but it didn't get redirected to www.sci-t.co.uk Went back via ftp to my hosting account and .htaccess isn't there. Presumably it is not hidden as I could see it when first ftped across? Confused. Is the hosting co. auto deleting it?
I would prefer both 301 redirect and Google Web Master tools. However, I would prefer to do both for your site, as Google webmaster tool will help you on Google only where 301 redirect will help you on other search engines as well.